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Managerial Accounting [with ConnectPLUS Access Code]

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1. managerial accounting and business environment 2. managerial accounting and cost concepts 3. systems design: job-order costing 4. process costing 5. cost behavior: analysis and use 6. cost-volume profit relationships 7. variable costing: a tool for mgmt 8. activity-based costing 9. profit ploanning 10. flexible budgets and performance analysis 11. standard costs and operating performance measures 12. segment reporting, decentralization, and balanced scorecard, 13. relevant costs for decision making, 14. captial budgeting decisions 15. how well am i doing- statement of cash flows 16. how well am i doing?-financil statement analysis

896 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

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101 reviews26 followers
April 12, 2011
This book provides easy discussions but challenging problems that the readers will work with. For those who want to learn managerial accounting the easiest way, this is the book fit for you.
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32 reviews
July 27, 2011
An okay textbook--a little heavy on the information throughout each chapter but it was a condensed summer course that I was taking so that just might have been the pace of the class; not the textbook.
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40 reviews20 followers
July 16, 2008
One of the clearest-written and most informative accounting textbooks I've read. Real-life examples and industry-specific tips make this a book that you'll keep on the shelf for frequent reference.
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46 reviews
May 17, 2023
This class made me rethink if I want to do accounting
38 reviews
April 27, 2019
The 10th edition can be found online for free. I was assigned a book through Cengage for my Managerial accounting course; the book was horrible. I found a lecture series on YouTube by Dr. Mark Meldrum ~ incredible work this gentleman does. He used this text. I highly suggest for anyone who wants a real mastery of this content to use this book and watch the lectures.
26 reviews
February 25, 2011
Absolutely captivating! This is the most enthralling book on managerial accounting that you will ever open. Careful, once you start, you will find it hard to put down. You may just want to take a few days off of work and school so you can set aside some time to really get into this one!
125 reviews3 followers
July 19, 2009
Good basics especially if you are responsible for a department budget
41 reviews22 followers
April 21, 2013
Learned a lot. Covered a lot of manufacturing managerial accounting that I was not aware of given my hospitality background. Will be keeping as reference.
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3 reviews1 follower
September 27, 2011
Good book for the topic, but very difficult for me to get through.
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September 17, 2023
I had the pleasure of "leasing" this book for 6 months from the publisher as an eBook in a proprietary system (not Kindle). The system has some disadvantages: you can't export notes and highlights, nor can you copy text to paste elsewhere (such as in your Word document for your homework assignment).

Technical and price factors aside, this is a massive and dense book. If you can stay awake, you might learn something. I'm pretty happy that I'm taking "Accounting for Decision-Making" as part of my course and I think that these basic accounting concepts should be taught in high school as part of basic financial literacy. Good exercises - but since I'm renting the text book, I don't have access to the answers to check my work.
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13 reviews2 followers
September 1, 2020
It wasn't that helpful for me because it did complicate a lot of the simple concepts that I was learning on some chapters I felt like it was completely not worth it, The University of Johannesburg ended up switching to a different textbook altogether the following year because of student complaints.
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127 reviews7 followers
May 10, 2021
Astonishingly dry and the text will put you to sleep quickly. You could probably take out 2/3rds of this book and there would still be fluff. Just awful. I'm not giving it a 1 because the relevant information in the book is actually incredibly useful. 2/5
99 reviews1 follower
June 25, 2017
It's a good textbook, the problems at the end of each of the chapters are relevant to the topics covered and were helpful for practice.
12 reviews1 follower
July 30, 2023
Very good book. Helps a lot in passing accounting tests because it focuses on exercising and steps in Managerial Accounting, could also be very helpful in better understanding finance.
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10 reviews6 followers
April 27, 2024
Learn a lot about how businesses work to make or buy products. Avoidable costs and many others business deal with labor costs and productions.
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May 3, 2024
unfortunately read this entire textbook, it might as well count towards my reading goal
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18 reviews1 follower
May 15, 2024
Overall good textbook. I didn’t start crying till about halfway through the chapters.
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39 reviews1 follower
January 9, 2025
This was the first time I've read through a textbook fully for class. It was a great addition to what we were learning in class. There were pretty good explanations, and the practice problems were very helpful.
15 reviews
May 1, 2014
Garrison breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand bite-sized pieces. I've used other accounting textbooks that seemed to begin somewhere in the middle. Garrison starts with the small pieces and then fits them all together so that they make a coherent whole. This textbook made the learning process as easy as possible.
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